What’s playing in Madison theaters, September 13-19, 2013

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All week

The Family” (Point, Eastgate, Star Cinema, Sundance) — A mob family relocates to the south of France’s in  Luc Besson’s high-concept R-rated comedy, which is not getting very good reviews.

“Insidious: Chapter 2” (Point, Eastgate, Star Cinema) — Geez, we’re only on Chapter 2? The PG-13 jump-scare series about spirits haunting ghosts and people continues onward.

Austenland” (Sundance) — My full review is here. Most critics are panning this Keri Russell film, but I thought it was a refreshingly goofy entry in the increasingly formulaic rom-com genre.

Crystal Fairy” (Sundance) — My full review is here. Michael Cera and Gaby Hoffmann are two very different Americans lost in Chile and looking for a magical cactus in this shaggy road comedy with surprising bite.

Friday

The Great Gatsby” (6:30 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — My full review is here. Baz Luhrmann’s attempt to jazz up the Jazz Age classic with hip-hop and 3D didn’t work, although Leonardo DiCaprio is perfectly at ease in the title role. FREE!

L’Avventura” (7 p.m., UW CInematheque, 4070 Vilas Hall) — The Cinematheque presents a newly struck 35mm print of MIchelangelo Antonioni’s seminal 1960 Italian film. FREE!

Frances Ha” (9:30 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — My full review is here. Greta Gerwig absolutely sparkles in Noah Baumbach’s French New Wave-inspired comedy about a New York dancer finally moving into adulthood. FREE!

Spring Breakers” (midnight, Union South Marquee Theatre) — Harmony Korine gives the people what they think they want in this candy-colored tale of guns and bikinis in south Florida. FREE!

Saturday

The Great Gatsby” (6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — See Friday listing.

Army of Shadows” (7 p.m., UW Cinematheque) — Jean-Pierre Melville’s grimly unsentimental thriller about the French Resistance only surfaced a few years ago, and it’s a masterpiece, suspenseful but also eloquent in the moral compromises good makes to fight evil. FREE!

“Spring Breakers” (midnight, Union South Marquee Theatre) — See Friday listing.

Sunday

River of No Return” (2 p.m., Chazen Museum of Art, 800 Langdon St.) — Otto Preminger’s 1954 film follows a river rat (Robert Mitchum) help a saloon singer (Marilyn Monroe) find her husband on the raging rapids in this CinemaScope classic. FREE!

The Great Gatsby” (3 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — See Friday listing.

Monday

Between Us” (1:45 and 9:30 p.m., Eastgate, 9:30 p.m. Point) — This lacerating indie film stars Julia Stiles and Taye Diggs in a tale of two couples who reveal secrets over the course of a dinner party.

Dazed and Confused” (4 p.m. Eastgate and Point) — School’s out for summer in Richard Linklater’s knowing evocation of ’70s high school life. Twenty years after its release, we get older, but it still stays the same.

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Paul McCartney and Wings — Rockshow” (6:30 p.m. Eastgate and Point) — Did you miss Paul at Miller Park? Catch him in his prime in this concert film, taking during Wings’ 1976 world tour.

Tuesday

Between Us” (4 p.m. Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.

Paul McCartney and Wings: Rockshow” (6:30 p.m. Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.

Frances Ha” (7 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — See Friday listing.

Dazed and Confused” (9:30 p.m., Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.

Wednesday

Between Us” (4 p.m., Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing

Dazed and Confused” (6:30 p.m, Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.

Frances Ha” (9:30 p.m. Union South Marquee Theatre) — See Friday listing.

“Paul McCartney and Wings: Rockshow” (9:30 p.m. Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.

Thursday

Between Us” (4 p.m., Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.

Dazed and Confused” (6:30 p.m, Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.

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Stoker” (7 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — My full review is here. Park Chan-wook’s American debut is an exercise in style, but what style, a Gothic thriller in which a teenage girl (Mia Wasikowska) contends with a mysterious uncle (Matthew Goode) who arrives after her father’s death. FREE!

This is the End” (9:30 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — My full review is here. Looking back, I think “The World’s End” gets the nod as apocalypse comedy of the summer, but this raunchy and bloody comedy is a close second, as Seth Rogen, James Franco and others play themselves dealing with end times. FREE!

“Paul McCartney and Wings: Rockshow” (9:30 p.m. Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.

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